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In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample

Both elephant and cattle are herbivorous animal that differs by site of fermentation but similar in inability of producing fibre-degrading enzyme which instead produced by the microbes in the gut. But it is appears to be that elephant have much lower daily dry matter intake than ruminant’s maintenan...

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Main Author: Baharudin, Nabeelah Aniyyah
Format: Project Paper Report
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91516/1/FP%202017%20112%20-%20IR.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91516/
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spelling my.upm.eprints.915162021-11-29T00:59:07Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91516/ In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample Baharudin, Nabeelah Aniyyah Both elephant and cattle are herbivorous animal that differs by site of fermentation but similar in inability of producing fibre-degrading enzyme which instead produced by the microbes in the gut. But it is appears to be that elephant have much lower daily dry matter intake than ruminant’s maintenance requirement. Hence, an in vitro gas production (GP) technique is used to study the fermentation ability and compare the rate between elephant and cattle by using faecal and rumen samples as inoculums respectively. The fresh faecal (F) and rumen (R) were collected, filtered and mixed with buffer solution before incubated in 39°C distilled water to digest 3 types of substrates which were the treatments; elephant feed (EF), Pakchong Napier grass (PN) and 50:50 mixture of both feed (M) for 72 hours. Produced gas volume (mL) were recorded every 4th hour. In Vitro Dry Matter Digestibility (IVDMD) were determined post-incubation. F versus R inoculums, higher GP recorded for FEF and FPN (0 to 20 and 24th hour respectively) but become lower than REF and RPN till incubation periods ends. FPN recorded constantly lower GP than RPN. For IVDMD, comparing with R, F inoculums obtained higher percentage for FEF and FM but lower for FPN. In conclusion, though hypothesis was rejected but this study found that elephants’ F inoculums achieved faster asymptotic gas production. 2017 Project Paper Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91516/1/FP%202017%20112%20-%20IR.pdf Baharudin, Nabeelah Aniyyah (2017) In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample. [Project Paper Report]
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description Both elephant and cattle are herbivorous animal that differs by site of fermentation but similar in inability of producing fibre-degrading enzyme which instead produced by the microbes in the gut. But it is appears to be that elephant have much lower daily dry matter intake than ruminant’s maintenance requirement. Hence, an in vitro gas production (GP) technique is used to study the fermentation ability and compare the rate between elephant and cattle by using faecal and rumen samples as inoculums respectively. The fresh faecal (F) and rumen (R) were collected, filtered and mixed with buffer solution before incubated in 39°C distilled water to digest 3 types of substrates which were the treatments; elephant feed (EF), Pakchong Napier grass (PN) and 50:50 mixture of both feed (M) for 72 hours. Produced gas volume (mL) were recorded every 4th hour. In Vitro Dry Matter Digestibility (IVDMD) were determined post-incubation. F versus R inoculums, higher GP recorded for FEF and FPN (0 to 20 and 24th hour respectively) but become lower than REF and RPN till incubation periods ends. FPN recorded constantly lower GP than RPN. For IVDMD, comparing with R, F inoculums obtained higher percentage for FEF and FM but lower for FPN. In conclusion, though hypothesis was rejected but this study found that elephants’ F inoculums achieved faster asymptotic gas production.
format Project Paper Report
author Baharudin, Nabeelah Aniyyah
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In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
author_facet Baharudin, Nabeelah Aniyyah
author_sort Baharudin, Nabeelah Aniyyah
title In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
title_short In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
title_full In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
title_fullStr In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
title_full_unstemmed In vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
title_sort in vitro study of elephant hindgut fermentation using feed and faecal sample
publishDate 2017
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/91516/1/FP%202017%20112%20-%20IR.pdf
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